Re: [Mingw-users] Linking against MSVCR71.DLL

[Greg Chicares <gchicares@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-02-03 01:29Z, Tim Stahlhut wrote:
[...]
>> Brian Dessent wrote:
>>
>>> Furthermore, it may consitute a license violation of the GPL if you
>>> were to link GPL code to MSVCR71.DLL because it would be creating a
>>> combined work that is not GPL. The only reason that this is
>>> permissable when linking to MSVCRT.DLL is that the GPL contains an
>>> exception clause for "components of thee operating system" which
>>> MSVCRT is but the other versions are not.
[...]
> Would this be a valid work around?
> Write an LGPL DLL that links to MSVCR71.DLL.
> Then link the GPL DLL to the LGPL DLL.
> Or, would that not fix the licence issue?

See the "we believe they form a single program" section here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins

as well as this:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL

My guess is that they'd view it as a sham. And the likely
issue with the ms license, mentioned earlier in this thread,
would still remain.

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